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Thinking About Getting a 3D Printer (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Seems like an interesting hobby I literally know fuck all about.

Talk me into it. Or talk me out of it. I'm good with either.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I second this. I also bought an Ender 2 for $200 that came completely flat-packed. I had 'fun' assembling it and had several months of 'fun' printing parts for the printer and buying upgrades. Most of which I managed to install before I got tired of every other print still failing and requiring hours of fiddily tweaks to print nicely. It is collecting dust now as I obtained a slightly nicer Monoprice Duplicator i3 secondhand which still fails pretty frequently unless I run it at 20% speed.

If it is within your price range I would highly suggest a printer with Auto-Bed-Leveling, will hopefully mitigate some frustration.